Negotiating a crisis

Are you an extrovert or an introvert? A type A or a type B? Or maybe you don't care about the categories but you would like to be less shy or more organised? Claudia Hammond and her panel of experts discuss personality in front of a live audience at Cheltenham Science Festival. P ...  Show more

Are ADHD-like symptoms during perimenopause just down to hormonal changes or could they actually be revealing undiagnosed ADHD? Brain fog can be a key symptom of both, which means it's not always easy to tell the difference, leaving women unsure. 'Scummy Mummies' podcaster Helen ...  Show more

The adventurer and ultra-runner Alex Staniforth talks about his survival on Everest following the devastating Nepalese earthquake in 2015. Rachel Manning from Buckingham University considers why we do or don’t intervene in risky situations and in everyday life. And Patrick Tissin ...  Show more

In this episode, one of our expert hostage negotiators describes how they calmed an armed criminal trapped in a bank with a hostage. When dealing with incidents of this nature it is critical to reduce the stress of the person that the negotiators are engaging with. These techniqu ...  Show more

There's new research that says stress impacts how we talk to each other. It can actually work to our favour - you can kinda play detective if you know this trick! We're going to take you through some stress-tone-of-voice insight can help you to connect with the people in your lif ...  Show more

Brigitte Khoury, Associate Professor, explains how she and her colleagues research the impact on the public of stressful times in Lebanon, what every person can do to help themselves, and how AUB responds to the current crises.Dr. Khoury analyzes how Lebanon’s multiple crises imp ...  Show more